Rŭn'ning1, a.
a. 1. Kept for the race; as, a running horse. Law.
Sense 2. Successive; without any thing of the same kind intervening; as, two days running; to sow land two years running.
Sense 3. Flowing; ready; easy; as, a running hand.
Sense 4. Continuous. “A running conquest.” Milton.
What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature. Hare.
Sense 5. Discharging pus or other matter; as, a running sore.
Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive.—Running days (Com.), the consecutive days occupied on a voyage under a charter-party, including Sundays, and not limited to the working days. Simmonds.—Running fight, a battle in which one party flees and the other pursues, but the party fleeing keeps up the contest.—Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon.—Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working parts of a locomotive.—Running rigging (Naut.), that part of a ship’s rigging or ropes which passes through blocks, &c.;—in distinction from standing rigging.—Running title (Print.), the title of a book that is continued from page to page on the upper margin.